orale

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  1. A veil worn by the Pope at solemn pontifical celebrations; the fanon. See fanon, 3 .
  2. In craniometry, the anterior terminal point of the sutura incisiva, on the inner face of the alveolar process. Von Török.

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  1. Middle Latin, neuter of (New Latin) oralis, of the mouth: see oral.
 

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